Ernesto Lapadula practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Ernesto Lapadula as Italian architect (1902-1968).
Ernesto Lapadula was born at Pisticci in 1902. His recorded nationality is Italy.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Italy shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Ernesto Lapadula died in 1968, aged 66. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
